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Targeting pulmonary arterial capacitance or compliance can improve overall survival and quality of life in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and pulmonary hypertension secondary to left heart disease (PH-LHD).

Findings suggest that including slowly repeated evoked pain (SREP) in quantitative sensory testing protocols may enhance assessments of altered pain modulation in different pain conditions.

Triple oral combination therapy with macitentan, riociguat, and selexipag may be a promising strategy to treat patients with low/intermediate-risk pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), and possibly even patients with high-risk PAH.

The disorder known as molybdenum cofactor deficiency (MoCD) Type A presents shortly after birth, often with severe encephalopathy and intractable seizures.

Vamshi Rao, MD, attending physician of Neurology at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, discusses the future of combination therapies in the spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) space.

More than 2 years after treatment, some of the patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma have yet to see a relapse. An FDA decision on the therapy is expected within a month.

Updates on Waldenström macroglobulinemia treatment formed by an international consensus panel were recently finalized and published in The Lancet Haematology.

While diagnostic algorithms have evolved in the last decade, there remains an urgent need for innovative therapeutic options to treat systemic sclerosis with pulmonary arterial hypertension.

The peptide-drug conjugate rapidly delivers an alkylating payload into tumor cells.

The novel systemic-immune inflammation index (SII) can be used to predict the onset of psoriasis.

Nanotherapies have the potential to overcome the blood-brain barrier and the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier, representing a possible treatment opportunity for rare diseases.

The results also showed that the infants achieved certain milestones in motor development, pulmonary function, and survival.

While only 3 small interfering RNA (siRNA)-based therapies have been approved, the market is poised to expand with 7 other candidates in phase 3 trials.

Break Through Cancer, a collaborative research effort between 5 top US academic cancer centers, aims to pursue solutions to some of the most difficult challenges in cancer research.

Genetically decreased vitamin D levels are unlikely to have a large effect on risk of type 1 diabetes, according to results of a Mendelian randomization study published in PLOS Medicine.

Among 6 sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulators evaluated for use in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), a new meta-analysis shows amiselimod had the highest efficacy.

The FDA has granted priority review of the supplemental New Drug Application for ruxolitinib for the treatment of steroid-refractory chronic graft-versus host disease (GVHD).

Elderly patients who recently had a heart attack and fit the criteria for obstructive sleep apnea were shown to be at greater risk for heart rhythm disorders, such as arrhythmia and coronary artery disease, as well as for major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events.

Health-related quality of life was maintained when treating relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) with daratumumab in combination with bortezomib and dexamethasone.

Advocates for patients with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) want changes in study designs on emerging therapies to speed development and better align with the needs of researchers and patients.

In their recently published review, the researchers offer a detailed look at the drugs and toxins associated with drug- and toxin-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), as various associations have come to light in recent decades.

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) healthy enough not to have seen a specialist have higher hospitalization rates than the general population, according to a recent study.

The results from an analysis of patients from 12 rheumatology centers treated with secukinumab for psoriatic arthritis were in line with earlier pivotal trials, the researchers said.

The current guidance emphasizes that the mRNA-based Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are safe for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) taking disease modifying therapies (DMTs).

The researchers prefaced their study by highlighting that pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and all forms of PH continue to be highly morbid and sometimes fatal, particularly in cases requiring hospitalization in the intensive care unit.

A group of researchers discuss the clinical features and diagnosis of acute hepatic porphyrias (AHP) as well as their take on the approval of the first small interfering RNA (siRNA)-based therapy for the treatment of these patients.

Lidocaine throat spray can be an effective treatment for refractory chronic cough, according to a recent study.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we highlight a new feature on AJMC.com, the website of The American Journal of Managed Care®, called Clinical Spotlight, where our editors provide a series of interviews with leading experts in certain specialties.

Novartis' drug, which combines sacubitril and valsartan, is the first to directly treat patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Researchers from the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at the University of Texas Southwestern discovered a potential treatment for patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have KRAS and LKB1 mutations.